Spirax Sarco would like to extend its congratulations to James Cheema of Nestlé UK & Ireland for being named Food & Drink Engineer of the Year at the Food & Drink Federation (FDF) Awards 2014.

James was presented with the award by Sheldon Banks, Director UK & ROI at Spirax Sarco, which sponsored the Food & Drink Engineer of the Year category for the first time.

Mr Banks commented: “As an engineering company that serves the vital food and drink sector, we are very proud to be sponsoring the 2014 FDF Food & Drink Engineer of the Year award.

“We recognise the importance of the profession not only within the Food & Drink industry itself, but also as a career path to help address the shortage of engineers in the UK generally. We’d therefore like to congratulate James for doing such tremendous work in this field.”

James is a final year engineering graduate working at Nestlé UK & Ireland’s Girvan plant. During his time with Nestlé James project managed the integration of a new £1m installation and took an active role in organising regular forums for young engineers.

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